Top 100 Attentive Quotes
#1. I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.
Ariel Gore
#2. Any attentive reading is necessarily a kind of rewriting.
Thierry Hentsch
#3. The arts inform as well as stimulate; they challenge as well as satisfy. Their location is not limited to galleries, concert halls and theatres. Their home can be found wherever humans chose to have attentive and vita intercourse with life itself.
Elliot W. Eisner
#4. Speaking of this, he felt something had been returned to him, as though the inestimable losses of life had been lifted like a boulder, and beneath he saw - under the attentive gaze of Daisy's blue eyes - the comforts and sweetness of what had once been.
Elizabeth Strout
#6. To regret fully is to appreciate how high the stakes are in even the average human life; fully experienced, it turns our eyes, attentive and alert, to a future possibly lived better than our past.
David Whyte
#7. Every art, like our own, has in its composition fluctuating as well as fixed principles. It is an attentive inquiry into their difference that will enable us to determine how far we are influenced by custom and habit, and what is fixed in the nature of things.
Joshua Reynolds
#8. She had once been a Catholic, but discovering that priests were infinitely more attentive when she was in process of losing or regaining faith in Mother Church, she maintained an enchantingly wavering attitude.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#9. Empathy probably started out as a mechanism to improve maternal care. Mammalian mothers who were attentive to their young's needs were more likely to rear successful offspring.
Frans De Waal
#10. We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful.
Mary Antin
#11. As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very attentive to my instructions, and seem willing to be taught further.
David Brainerd
#12. During Advent, we prepare room in a new day for an old story. Through our attentive waiting, we participate in the story of the season and make it new again. And we are made new by it. We emerge at the other end of Advent's tunnel, and we are not as we were when our journey began.
Christie Purifoy
#13. Women don't want all that. Women just want a partner who is considerate and attentive, who will spoon with them while reciting Keats, and feed them organic yogurt by candlelight on a seaside cliff at sunset.
Stephen Colbert
#14. You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these awful critical eyes, or you can just say, The hell with you! I know what I'm doing. If you don't yet, it's because you haven't given me an attentive reading.
Saul Bellow
#15. She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.
Charles Dickens
#16. It's as if attentive
people create a magnetic force field for stor-
ies the tellers themselves didn't know they
had within them.
Gloria Steinem
#17. We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking.
Nicholas G. Carr
#18. The facile delusions which conceal from us our true situation all amount to this: that we are, or can be, wiser than the wisest men of the past. We are thus induced to play the part, not of attentive and docile listeners, but of impresarios and lion-tamers.
Leo Strauss
#19. We can't get away with anything with children. They are keen and attentive, and they will eventually grow up to tell the story of their home.
Sarah Mae
#20. I'm very attentive, Marley. I want to give it all of the resources at my disposal so it will thrive and flourish. I want to watch while it grows under my nurturing hands.
M.K. Schiller
#21. The way he looks at me, all serious and attentive, was more flattering than any compliment I'd ever had
Hester Browne
#22. The true Christian's nostril is to be continually attentive to the inner cesspool.
C.S. Lewis
#23. It's one that still happens, actually ... forgetting a part of a difficult piece. Usually, the chances of it happening are directly proportional to how quiet and attentive the audience is.
Steve Morse
#25. I believe in divine inspiration and things like that and I really relish a good, attentive, participating audience.
John Mahoney
#26. Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter
Condoleezza Rice
#27. Effective listening is something that can absolutely be learned and mastered. Even if you find attentive listening difficult and, in certain situations, boring or unpleasant, that doesn't mean you can't do it. You just have to know what to work on.
Travis Bradberry
#28. What had just happened between us in this bed was every woman's erotic fantasy. He was totally dominant, powerful and confident, skilled and passionate and attentive.
Jasinda Wilder
#29. You gotta love an attentive vampire
--Kylie
C.C. Hunter
#30. But an attentive researcher
like you
might be able to see something that all the experts can't see. If she asks the right questions.
Katherine Howe
#31. Evil is a superficial manifestation of a deep disturbance and imbalance in our collective psyche. The only way for us to help heal the wounds is to be sober, sane, quiet, loving, and attentive to each other.
Deepak Chopra
#32. But in the slow, attentive reading demanded by unpunctuated texts, the faculty of hearing has its chance, is enhanced until the text speaks itself.
Dorothy M. Richardson
#33. Individuals we consider happy commonly seem complete in the present and we see them constantly in their wholeness: attentive, cheerful, open rather than closed to events, integral in the moment rather than distended across time by regret or anxiety.
Robert Grudin
#34. While praying, listen to the words very carefully. When your heart is attentive, your entire being enters your prayer without your having to force it.
Nachman Of Breslov
#35. Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.
Joan Halifax
#36. The merit of the cross does not consist in its heaviness, but in the manner in which we carry it. I would even say that it is sometimes more virtuous to carry a cross of straw than a heavy cross because we have to be more attentive for fear of losing it.
Saint Francis De Sales
#37. In the pseudoiterative, one performs the ritual of the day attentive to both the joy of the familiar and the shiver of the accidental.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#38. How strange a thing is death, bringing to his knees, bringing to his antlers The buck in the snow ... Life, looking out attentive from the eyes of the doe.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#39. Be attentive, be intelligent, be responsible, be loving, and if necessary, change.
Bernard Lonergan
#40. under the live oaks on the square. Attentive critics of courthouse business, Atticus said
Harper Lee
#41. The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.
Joseph Joubert
#42. [T]oday's Washington is about as attentive to the Tenth Amendment as the Unitarian Church is to the Book of Revelation.
Joseph Sobran
#43. You need to be a "good-enough mom"
attentive, loving, and responsive. No one is the perfect mom. As long as you try to be perfect, you will continue to be insignificant in your own eyes.
Laura C. Schlessinger
#44. It's really important to be attentive to the people who have less - who are less fortunate than you are.
Paul Newman
#45. He has that quiet deference, that look of pleased, attentive interest, in listening to a woman, which, say what we may, we can none of us resist.
Wilkie Collins
#46. In spite of Stepan Arkadyevitch's efforts to be an attentive father and husband, he never could keep in his mind that he had a wife and children.
Leo Tolstoy
#47. Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction ... What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#48. There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#49. Attentativeness is the path to true life.
Indifference is the path to death.
The attentive do not die.
The indifferent are as if they are dead already
Dhammapala
#50. The better the questions, the more attentive the listening, the richer the reflection, the better the solutions, and the deeper is the learning.
Julia Sloan
#51. I know that he's watching me with attentive interest while wielding his flogger with casual, yet expert skill. He moves closer. Heat, sexual tension and pent up fury radiate from his body. My Master's darker nature is fucking scary.
Nikki Sex
#52. I don't think about it in terms of being a woman. Being gracious, attentive, curious, interested are requirements for everyone.
Jenna Lyons
#53. German civility, which often seems stiff to us, shows an attentive and touching respect for the person that I often prefer to our offhandedness.
Adrienne Monnier
#54. Mac, are you even listening?" Nick's voice sounded annoyed. "You used to be a lot more attentive."
"I used to be banging you too," I informed him absently. "I found your opinions about my love life a lot more interesting then.
S.E. Harmon
#55. Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
Thornton Wilder
#56. How many of us, myself included, have lost our bearings; we are no longer attentive to the world in which we live; we don't care; we don't protect what God created for everyone, and we end up unable even to care for one another.
Pope Francis
#57. Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded in the mighty heap of human calamity, were it only surveyed by the eye of general benevolence equally attentive to every misery.
Samuel Johnson
#58. Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive to formality or etiquette") comes from the same original root as punctuation.
Lynne Truss
#59. In this sense, the methodological form that comes into play here is ultimately quite simple: Scripture is interpreted by Scripture. Scripture interprets itself. Attentive listening to Scripture's own internal self-interpretation is very characteristic of Redemptoris Mater.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#60. It is only the dull, sleepy mind that creates and clings to habit. A mind that is attentive from moment to moment - attentive to what it is saying, attentive to the movement of its hands, of its thoughts, of its feelings - will discover that the formation of further habits has come to an end.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#61. Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say.
George Washington
#62. The paintings live because their creator has been passionately attentive to their theme, and his attention has left something for us to look at. It seems a sort of miracle.
Lucian Freud
#63. I consoled myself with the fact that I had max. He's warm, attentive and completely devoted. Who could ask for anything more
Abby Shaw, Sucker Punched
Sammi Carter
#64. There is no substitute for attentive repetition.
Daniel Coyle
#65. When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive; for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and offence against the gods.
Sophocles
#66. The simple act of being completely attentive and present to another person is an act of love, and it fosters unshakeable well-being. It is happiness that isn't bound to a particular situation, happiness that can withstand change.
Sharon Salzberg
#67. A minister may be diligent in his work, regular in his family, resident with his people and attentive to them, and in many respects exemplary in his outward conduct, and yet not preach Jesus Christ, and him crucified.32
Tony Reinke
#68. Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
Alexander Pope
#69. Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence.
Soren Kierkegaard
#70. Kind of prayer we here speak of as properly "monastic" (though it may also fit into the life of any lay person who is attracted to it) is a prayer of silence, simplicity, contemplative and meditative unity, a deep personal integration in an attentive, watchful listening of "the heart.
Thomas Merton
#71. Toil on, son, and do not lose heart or hope. Let nothing you dismay. You are not utterly forsaken. I, too, am here
here in the darkness waiting, here attentive, here approving of your labor and your dream.
Thomas Wolfe
#72. I am beginning to experience that an unconditional, total love of God makes a very articulate, alert, and attentive love for the neighbor possible.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#73. My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.
Christopher Durang
#74. The British scholar Avner Offer calls attention "the universal currency of well-being." Attentive people, in other words, are happy people. Tashi
Eric Weiner
#75. To be an outstanding musician, you have to be very attentive to the smallest detail and willing to have infinite patience in the pursuit of your ideal. You require absolute control and professionalism.
Yehudi Menuhin
#76. A slave should be sincere, loyal, discreet, clean, modest, honest, graceful, intelligent (that is able to learn what is required for her position), respectful of herself and others, observant, attentive, and ethical.
Christina Abernathy
#77. Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive.
Kirk Douglas
#78. Living is a creative and active process of diligent learning that entails industrious human action, attentive awareness, and thoughtful reflection. Learning is one facet of human beings innate capacity that can provide a sense of worthiness to human life.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#79. One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.
Groucho Marx
#80. Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
#81. The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City - hence their reluctance to see the introduction of a tax on financial transactions and tax harmonisation in Europe.
Francois Hollande
#82. Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my Fate.
Francois Rabelais
#83. All right, so call me Miss Cliche of 1960, but the thing about the married ones that always spooks me is how sweet and attentive they are at first, when they're on the prowl.
S.J Perelman
#84. This gardener will be out in the very early morning and from late afternoon, attentive to small changes in the quality of light and the atmosphere, as well as to every nuance of the season, which combine to create perfection.
Susan Hill
#85. In most cases we perform better when we're busy than when we're not busy. When we're slow, our mind wanders. We're not as attentive to our business. When we're on the firing line, we're sharper. We move more quickly and get the job done right.
S. Truett Cathy
#86. An attentive reader will always learn more, and more quickly, from good authors than from life.
Herve Le Tellier
#87. Why do women prefer adventurers who make them suffer, rather than men who are kind and attentive? Are they seduced by the man or by the vast horizons he allows them to glimpse? Is it the man they love or the dream he represents?
Kenize Mourad
#88. "Story-tellers" should listen seriously to design and architecture without getting all literary and imperial about that. Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.
Bruce Sterling
#89. I am always fascinated by the way kids create their own world. That is something I am very attentive to anywhere I go.
Francis Alys
#90. Tomorrow, I will continue to be. But you will have to be very attentive to see me. I will be a flower, or a leaf. I will be in these forms and I will say hello to you. If you are attentive enough, you will recognize me, and you may greet me. I will be very happy.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#91. If you feel pain, be attentive to it; don't do anything. Attention is the great sword; it cuts everything. You simply pay attention to the pain.
Osho
#92. Torture is being married to a proud, insensitive man, while an attentive, supportive man lives under the same roof.
Heather Day Gilbert
#93. Perhaps the secret of living a holy life is to avoid every thing which will displease God and grieve the Spirit, and to be strictly attentive to the means of grace.
Adoniram Judson
#94. Too often, the anthropologist takes on the role of police detective, discovering what is "hidden," assembling "evidence" to make a strong "case"... But sometimes what is called for is not an "investigator" at all, but an attentive listener.
Liisa H. Malkki
#95. Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.
Isocrates
#96. Comprehension, in short, means the unpremeditated, attentive facing up to, and resisting of, reality - whatever it may be.
Hannah Arendt
#97. Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.
J.C. Ryle
#98. The most important thing is to be as attentive and aware as possible, with our senses awakened and our ability to love utterly intact, so that we can exist right here and right now, and enjoy life and be creative, trapped in neither the past nor the future.
A.G. Roemmers
#99. I discovered right away at the airport that Italian men were way too attentive.
Glenda Helms
#100. Each soul must awaken from the aloneness of a private dream world to greet the morning sun, view the sweet earth, apprehend the great silence, and demonstrate an appreciative thanks to everyday of life by living in a rapt state of attentive awareness.
Kilroy J. Oldster
